Se pretende en este artículo presentar los contenidos de lo que es la asignatura de Historia de las Relaciones Laborales, una disciplina básica del grado en Relaciones Laborales y Recursos Humanos, con un perfil claramente jurídico y a la vez social, desde un punto de vista histórico. Los...

Marx’s theory of surplus-value is fundamental to his innovations in the theory of value and Classical Political Economy. When Marx’s theory of surplus-value is considered in the context of the long-period method, the dynamics of surplus-value and its importance to Marx’s overall framework...

This paper analyses the Introduction to the Criticism of Political Economy by Karl Marx as the answer to the question "what is the structure of political economy?". This structure establishes an ordering which responds in turn to an integration determined by those ordered elements, which depends...

Because economic affairs involve individual action, they must be understood on the basis of a theory which is both subjective, depending on a conception of individual decision-making and especially private interest, and objective, demonstrating how the objective forces of a system of interaction...

Karl Marx is well known for sharply criticizing the social effects that technical change had on the employment and the working conditions of the labourers. At the same time, he was fascinated by the revolutionary power that technical innovations offered and assigned such innovations to play a...

Some commentators pose Veblen’s political economy as a corrective to the “reductionist†character of Marxism. This article counters by highlighting the primary source of differences between Veblen and Marx: their methods. Veblen’s generalized conceptions of monopoly and...

This paper challenges prevailing accounts of the financial origins of the Great Recession by engaging two distinct theoretical perspectives originating in Karl Marx and Hyman Minsky. The paper argues that the domestic and global, financial and “real†origins of the crisis are deeply...